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Sing to God a brand-new song. He's made a world of wonders! He rolled up his sleeves, He set things right. God made history with salvation, He showed the world what he could do. He remembered to love us, a bonus To his dear family, Israel - indefatigable love. The whole earth comes to attention. Look - God's work of salvation! Shout your praises to God, everybody! Let loose and sing! Strike up the band! Round up an orchestra to play for God, Add on a hundred-voice choir. Feature trumpets and big trombones, Fill the air with praises to King God. Let the sea and its fish give a round of applause, With everything living on earth joining in. Let ocean breakers call out, "Encore!" And mountains harmonize the finale - A tribute to God when he comes, When he comes to set the earth right. He'll straighten out the whole world, He'll put the world right, and everyone in it. (Psalm 98)
God made history with salvation. We have a God who loves us so much He does not want us to die eternally, but rather to live with Him forever. That's an awesome message, but a difficult one to share with a world that does not want to hear it. The psalmist knew the salvation of God. God sought him, found him, and the psalmist entered into a loving and trusting relationship with God. That's salvation. The psalmist then undertook a lifetime of song writing and singing the glories of God. For God came into his life and made all things right again. A new perspective entered his life. And the same has happened to you and me if we have sought that with God. Now, as believers we should undertake that task of sharing God with all we can.
It is not easy, but it is needed. Imagine if you would make it your goal to tell one person per month about God. And by the end of that month you had worked to make that person a believer and a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then the second month, third, until by the end of the year, you had blessed God's kingdom with twelve new disciples! The way things are in most churches bringing in 12 new people into God's work blesses the church with a noticed difference. If all twelve sat together on one row, the witness of God's salvation would be noticed.
God is going to put the world right, and God's going to use you and me to do it. And it should start right now.
PRAYER: Loving God I want to be a part of that work. I want to touch lives and make disciples. I want the world to be made right in the positive ways of love and compassion. Let me roll up my sleeves as a sign of the work that I am willing to do. This I pray in Christ Jesus' strong name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
